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Mum shirl smith autobiography of benjamin

          It's a fascinating story of an outstanding woman who was one of Australia's earliest female Aboriginal activists in the 20th century.

        1. Shirley 'Mum Shirl' Smith AM MBE was a.
        2. Robert Bropho (–, Nyoongar) published Fringedweller in , and Shirley Perry Smith (–, Wiradjuri) Mum Shirl: An Autobiography.
        3. Also Margaret Tucker's If Everyone Cared (), Mum Shirl: An Autobiography, written by Theresa Clemens and Shirley C. Smith, with the assistance of Roberta.
        4. Sykes, R. Mum Shirl: An Autobiography with the Assistance of Bobbi Sykes.,.

          5. Robert Bropho (–, Nyoongar) published Fringedweller in , and Shirley Perry Smith (–, Wiradjuri) Mum Shirl: An Autobiography.!

          Mum Shirl

          Australian activist

          Mum Shirl

          Portrait

          Born

          Coleen Shirley Perry Smith


          22 November 1924

          Erambie Mission, New South Wales, Australia

          Died28 April 1998(1998-04-28) (aged 73)

          Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

          Resting placeBotany Cemetery
          NationalityAustralian
          OccupationSocial worker
          Known forAboriginal rights
          SpouseCecil "Darcy Smith" Hazil
          Children2 (1 died during childbirth)

          Coleen Shirley Perry SmithAM MBE (22 November 1924 – 28 April 1998), better known as Mum Shirl, was a prominent Wiradjuri woman, social worker and humanitarian activist committed to justice and welfare of Aboriginal Australians.

          She was a founding member of the Aboriginal Legal Service, the Aboriginal Medical Service, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, the Aboriginal Children's Services, and the Aboriginal Housing Company in Redfern, a suburb of Sydney.

          During her lifetime she was recognised as an Australian National Living T